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Here is a complete introduction to the history of museums, types of
museums, and the key roles that museums play in the twenty-first
century. Following an introductory chapter looking at what a museum
is today, Part I looks at the history and types of museums: art and
design museums natural history and anthropology museums science
museums history museums, historic houses, interpretation centers,
and heritage sites botanical gardens and zoos children's museums
The second part of the book explores the primary functions of
museums and museum professionals: to collect to conserve to exhibit
to interpret and to engage to serve and to act The final chapter
looks at the museum profession and professional practices.
Throughout, emphasis is on museums in the United States, although
attention is paid to the historical framing of museums within the
European context. The new edition includes discussions of
technology, access, and inclusivity woven into each chapter, a list
of challenges and opportunities in each chapter, and "Museums in
Motion Today," vignettes spread throughout the volume in which
museum professionals provide their perspectives on where museums
are now and where they are going. More than 140 images illustrate
the volume.
Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials examines how the
modification, destruction, or absence of monuments and memorials
can be viewed as performative acts that challenge prescribed,
embodied narratives in the public realm. Bringing together
international, multidisciplinary approaches, the chapters in this
volume interrogate the ways in which memorial constructions
disclose implicitly and explicitly the proxy battle for public
memory and identity, particularly since 2015. Acknowledging the
ways in which the past - which is given agency through monuments
and memorials - intrudes into daily life, this volume offers
perspectives from researchers that answer questions about the roles
of monuments and memorials as persistent, yet mutable, works whose
meanings are not fixed but are, rather, subject to processes of
continual re-interpretation. By using monuments and memorials as
lenses through which to view race, memory, and the legacies of war,
power, and subjugation, this volume demonstrates how these works
and their visible representations of entitlement, possession,
control, and authority can offer the opportunity to pose and answer
questions about whose memory matters and what our symbols say about
who we are and what we value. Fallen Monuments and Contested
Memorials is essential reading for scholars and students studying
cultural heritage, history, art history and public history. It will
be particularly useful to those with an interest in public
monuments and memorials; colonial and post-colonial history; memory
studies; and nationalism, race and ethnic studies
Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials examines how the
modification, destruction, or absence of monuments and memorials
can be viewed as performative acts that challenge prescribed,
embodied narratives in the public realm. Bringing together
international, multidisciplinary approaches, the chapters in this
volume interrogate the ways in which memorial constructions
disclose implicitly and explicitly the proxy battle for public
memory and identity, particularly since 2015. Acknowledging the
ways in which the past - which is given agency through monuments
and memorials - intrudes into daily life, this volume offers
perspectives from researchers that answer questions about the roles
of monuments and memorials as persistent, yet mutable, works whose
meanings are not fixed but are, rather, subject to processes of
continual re-interpretation. By using monuments and memorials as
lenses through which to view race, memory, and the legacies of war,
power, and subjugation, this volume demonstrates how these works
and their visible representations of entitlement, possession,
control, and authority can offer the opportunity to pose and answer
questions about whose memory matters and what our symbols say about
who we are and what we value. Fallen Monuments and Contested
Memorials is essential reading for scholars and students studying
cultural heritage, history, art history and public history. It will
be particularly useful to those with an interest in public
monuments and memorials; colonial and post-colonial history; memory
studies; and nationalism, race and ethnic studies
Collections Care and Stewardship: Innovative Approaches for Museums
considers best practices and innovations related to documenting
collections with regard to movement and safe handling of items for
transport, display, photography, and treatment; collections
storage; and information-sharing within and beyond the museum. The
case studies in this volume examine best practices and innovations
related to collections with regard to display, interpretation,
engagement, storage, conservation treatment, and preservation.
Several chapters address undergraduate and graduate coursework and
internship experiences in a variety of contexts to offer best
practices as well as evaluation of such training opportunities. All
of these case studies ask us to think about the responsibilities
that we have, as museum professionals, to be stewards-a challenge
for all of us in terms of the obligations and responsibilities
therein, but also in terms of the challenge to frame our
collections as having the capacity to reflect as well as inspire.
The Innovative Approaches for Museums series offers case studies,
written by scholars and practitioners from museums, galleries, and
other institutions, that showcase the original, transformative, and
sometimes wholly re-invented methods, techniques, systems,
theories, and actions that demonstrate innovative work being done
in the museum and cultural sector throughout the world. The authors
come from a variety of institutions-in size, type, budget,
audience, mission, and collection scope. Each volume offers ideas
and support to those working in museums while serving as a resource
and primer, as much as inspiration, for students and the museum
staff and faculty training future professionals who will further
develop future innovative approaches. Contributions by: Jennifer
Schwarz Ballard, Terry A. Barnhart, Rebecca E. Bria, Marlena Cannon
de Mendez, Robert P. Connolly, Mary Coughlin, Elizabeth K. Cruzado
Carranza, Katherine A. Johnson, Michael Jones, Allison McCloskey,
Nicolette B. Meister, Carrie Wieners Meyer, Eileen Prendergast,
Marjorie Schwarzer, Glori Simmons, Shari Stout, and Kelly Tomajko
Technology and Digital Initiatives: Innovative Approaches for
Museums discloses the ways in which technology is used as a means
of communicating with visitors through podcasts, apps, websites,
and blogs; as an educational enhancement through off-site
e-learning and onsite participation at interactive kiosks; and as
non-site-based experiences through collaborative initiatives
providing open access to collections worldwide. This book offers
ten case studies that address technology and digital initiatives
from the perspective of initiators and consumers. Each of the
chapters consider the use of technology in as a means of
communicating with visitors through apps, websites, and other
online resources used onsite and off-site. For example, strategies
of museums detailed on a global level by Jane Alexander and
Elizabeth Bolander of The Cleveland Museum of Art and Sree
Sreenivasan of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Alexander and
Bolander walk us through the creation of a digital roadmap, a
digital vision that links the museum's mission and strategic plans
to the needs of its constituencies. Sree contends that museums can
lead the way with innovation in the digital sector. And he offers
lessons from his experience at the Met that might provide
guidelines for your work and your museum. The Innovative Approaches
for Museums series offers case studies, written by scholars and
practitioners from museums, galleries, and other institutions, that
showcase the original, transformative, and sometimes wholly
re-invented methods, techniques, systems, theories, and actions
that demonstrate innovative work being done in the museum and
cultural sector throughout the world. The authors come from a
variety of institutions-in size, type, budget, audience, mission,
and collection scope. Each volume offers ideas and support to those
working in museums while serving as a resource and primer, as much
as inspiration, for students and the museum staff and faculty
training future professionals who will further develop future
innovative approaches. Contributions by: Jane Alexander, Elizabeth
Bolander, Elizabeth Botten, Gareth Brereton, Nancy E. V. Bryk,
Stephen J. Bury, Duygu Camurcuoglu, Kimberly Christen, John
Dallwitz, Birger Ekornasvag Helgestad, Jennifer E. Henel, Kelly
Quinn, Sree Sreenivasan, Jonathan Taylor, Sabra Thorner, Rihoko
Ueno, and Heather Marie Wells
Fundraising and Strategic Planning: Innovative Approaches for
Museums appraises strategies museums employ to raise funds
including admission prices, membership categories, donor and
affinity groups, and specialized event-driven efforts while
examining new crowdfunding models such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo,
and Piggybackr. This book examines a range of ambitious
undertakings and the means by which museums and cultural
organizations achieve them. Each of the case studies in this volume
focuses on the cornerstones to museum operations: strategic
planning and fundraising. For example, Carl G. Hamm describes how
Saint Louis Art Museum moved from a capital campaign into a
sustainable stream of increased annual giving. Vicky U. Lee
narrates the transformation of abandoned, elevated rail yards into
an exciting, well-travelled (and highly-tagged and pinned) public
amenity, the High Line. While not a museum per se, the High Line
and its public art amenities offers much to the story of collecting
institutions, as well as to the framework of the public-private
partnership. The Innovative Approaches for Museums series offers
case studies, written by scholars and practitioners from museums,
galleries, and other institutions, that showcase the original,
transformative, and sometimes wholly re-invented methods,
techniques, systems, theories, and actions that demonstrate
innovative work being done in the museum and cultural sector
throughout the world. The authors come from a variety of
institutions-in size, type, budget, audience, mission, and
collection scope. Each volume offers ideas and support to those
working in museums while serving as a resource and primer, as much
as inspiration, for students and the museum staff and faculty
training future professionals who will further develop future
innovative approaches. Contributions by: Karen Coutts, Mike
Deetsch, Nancy Enterline, Karen Gillenwater, Amy Gilman, Carl G.
Hamm, Greg Hardison, Jill Hartz, Peter J. Kim, Vicky U. Lee, James
G. Leventhal, Melissa A. Russo, and Irina Zeylikovich
Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts and Activism calls upon craft,
during an era of political disruption, as a creative force to voice
dissent, express hope, critique the curtailment of civil rights,
and to restore dignity to the human experience. The essays and
artwork featured in this exhibition catalogue are framed within the
context of American democracy and disclose how we, as individuals
and as a culture, "craft democracy" and ultimately question what
democracy means today. This is the catalogue of an exhibition held
at Harold Hacker Hall, Central Library of Rochester [New York]
& Monroe County: August-October, 2019. Juilee Decker is
associate professor of museum studies at Rochester Institute of
Technology. Her publications include the 3rd edition of Museums in
Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums
(2017) and the four-volume series Innovative Approaches for Museums
(2015). Hinda Mandell is associate professor in the School of
Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology and is a
co-editor of Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the
2016 U.S. Presidential Election (University of Rochester Press,
2018). She is editor of Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest
from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats (forthcoming with
Rowman & Littlefield).
Here is a complete introduction to the history of museums, types of
museums, and the key roles that museums play in the twenty-first
century. Following an introductory chapter looking at what a museum
is today, Part I looks at the history and types of museums: art and
design museums natural history and anthropology museums science
museums history museums, historic houses, interpretation centers,
and heritage sites botanical gardens and zoos children's museums
The second part of the book explores the primary functions of
museums and museum professionals: to collect to conserve to exhibit
to interpret and to engage to serve and to act The final chapter
looks at the museum profession and professional practices.
Throughout, emphasis is on museums in the United States, although
attention is paid to the historical framing of museums within the
European context. The new edition includes discussions of
technology, access, and inclusivity woven into each chapter, a list
of challenges and opportunities in each chapter, and "Museums in
Motion Today," vignettes spread throughout the volume in which
museum professionals provide their perspectives on where museums
are now and where they are going. More than 140 images illustrate
the volume.
Engagement and Access: Innovative Approaches for Museums addresses
how museums forge two-way communication and engaged participation
through the use of community curation, social media, collaboration,
and inquiry-based learning. Such approaches demonstrate how museums
serve as thriving, central gathering places in communities and
offer meaningful, creative educational experiences. This book
addresses how museums forge two-way communication and engaged
participation through the use of community curation, social media,
collaboration, and inquiry-based learning. The examples of
engagement and access in this volume are paradigmatic of a shift in
thinking. Each of these case studies advocate for doing and
listening. That is to say, these institutions understand the
importance of meeting the needs of audiences. And, in the
twenty-first century, those audiences are onsite as well as online.
While they represent only a handful of initiatives and engaging
experiences thriving in museums today, they help us to see
engagement and access in terms of virtual collections, the crowd
(as in crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and crowdcrafting), and the
onsite experience. The Innovative Approaches for Museums series
offers case studies, written by scholars and practitioners from
museums, galleries, and other institutions, that showcase the
original, transformative, and sometimes wholly re-invented methods,
techniques, systems, theories, and actions that demonstrate
innovative work being done in the museum and cultural sector
throughout the world. The authors come from a variety of
institutions-in size, type, budget, audience, mission, and
collection scope. Each volume offers ideas and support to those
working in museums while serving as a resource and primer, as much
as inspiration, for students and the museum staff and faculty
training future professionals who will further develop future
innovative approaches. Contributions by: Charles Chen, Anne Corso,
Jan Freedman, William Hennessey, Ashley Hosler, J. Patrick
Kociolek, Sarah Lampen, Jennifer L. Lindsay, Margot Note, Stephanie
Parrish, Marisa J. Pascucci, Janet Sinclair, Siobhan Starrs,
Barbara W. Stauffer, Eric Steen, and Alison Zeidman
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